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A supporter holds a portrait of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Hundreds of raucous supporters celebrated the return of the firebrand Iraqi cleric Thursday after his emergence from four years of exile in Iran, drawing a plea from him to